William A. Yost & Richard R. Fay 
Auditory Perception of Sound Sources [PDF ebook] 

The Springer Handbook of Auditory Research presents a series of comprehensive and synthetic reviews of the fundamental topics in modern auditory research. The volumes are aimed at all individuals with interests in hearing research, including advanced graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and clinical investigators. The volumes are intended to introduce new investigators to important aspects of hearing science and to help established investigators to better understand the fundamental theories and data in fields of hearing that they may not normally follow closely. Each volume presents a particular topic comprehensively, and each serves as a synthetic overview and guide to the literature. As such, the chapters present neither exhaustive data reviews nor original research that has not yet appeared in peer-reviewed journals. The volumes focus on topics that have developed solid data and a strong conceptual foundation rather than on those for which a literature is only beginning to develop. New research areas will be covered on a timely basis in the series as they begin to mature.

Table of Content

Perceiving Sound Sources.- Human Sound Source Identification.- Size Information in the Production and Perception of Communication Sounds.- The Role of Memory in Auditory Perception.- Auditory Attention and Filters.- Informational Masking.- Effects of Harmonicity and Regularity on the Perception of Sound Sources.- Spatial Hearing and Perceiving Sources.- Envelope Processing and Sound-Source Perception.- Speech as a Sound Source.- Sound Source Perception and Stream Segregation in Nonhuman Vertebrate Animals.